2.5-D simultaneous multislice reconstruction by series expansion methods from Fourier-rebinned PET data

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 474-484

  Obi, Takashi ^a,b   Matej, Samuel ^a,b   Lewitt, Robert M ^a,b   Herman, Gabor T ^a,b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FOURIER REBINNING; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SIMULTANEOUS MULTISLICE RECONSTRUCTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0034178286     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.870257     Document Type: Article

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